Different biological and prognostic breast cancer populations identified by FDG-PET in sentinel node-positive patients: Results and clinical implications after eight-years follow-up

Abstract

Our findings suggest that FDG-PET results reflect intrinsic biologic features of primary BC tumors and have prognostic value with respect to nodal metastases. FDG-PET false negative cases appear to identify less aggressive indolent metastases. The possibility to identify a subgroup of N+ BC patients with an outcome comparable with N- BC patients could reduce the surgical and adjuvant therapeutic intervention.

Correlation between Long-Term Aspirin Use and F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake in Colorectal Cancer Measured by PET/CT

“…In present study, we found aspirin’s ability to decrease the SUV max of primary CRC lesions, while demonstrated no prognostic information from SUVmax of the primary lesions. Despite some researchers have suggested that FDG-PET have prognostic value for some types of malignancies [45] , [46] , [47] , past studies were mainly focused on stage IV CRC [48] . Our study included only resectable CRC and is consistent with results from Lee.JE [49] .…”

Analysing data from patient medical records to investigate whether a 18FDG-PET scan can predict survival in patients with breast cancer that can be treated with surgery

“…The potential of FDG-PET in operable breast cancer however is still debated. Several authors recently showed that pre-operative FDG-PET is a highly significant predictor of outcome in breast cancer [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. • Explore whether there are interactions, subgroups of patients in whom FDG -PET might be more important.…”